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Monday, November 13, 2017

Restoring The American Dream Turning Into A Nightmare

Restoring the American dream may turn into a nightmare for the Republican Party as our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house's jingoistic sloganeering begins to falter in the face of realpolitiks.

"...“Beyond a reasonable doubt” is the standard for criminal justice. It’s not the standard for counter-intelligence determinations. The preponderance of the evidence ever-more clearly indicates: In ways we cannot yet fully reckon—but can no longer safely deny—the man in the Oval Office has a guilty connection to the Russian government. That connection would bar him from literally any other job in national security except that of head of the executive branch and commander- in-chief of the armed forces of the United States..."--Atlantic, David Frum Nov 2017--

Our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house isn't just scrapping the bottom of the barrel for Republican Party senate candidates, it's pulling them out of its ass—Republican Party hashtag "make America great again"!

† Nature's randomness may need diversity in ways, which our species has yet to understand? It seems ignorant and dangerous to cut or end diversity and substitute dogma for understanding? Abandoning reason for "god" will not alter nature's randomness, but enables dogma to supersede understanding, usually "god" appeasing dogma!

"...To all of this, Trump seems oblivious. He is contemptuous of principle. Words cascade from his mouth and they mean nothing, because when a man of moral emptiness tries to exhort a nation to greatness the only thing communicated is pitiful, almost comical, hypocrisy.

President Trump has yet to meet a strongman who does not elicit his sympathy or a multilateral organization that does not prompt his disdain..."--Spiegel, November 06, 2017--

It is obvious to all but the most doltish, deluded, or dogma driven that our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house's head is up its ass! What is not so obvious is what measures, if any Congress and Judiciary will take to mitigate the grave harm, which our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house is causing our nation?

"...The purpose of Mr Mueller’s investigation is not to take down Mr Trump. It is to make it harder for foreign governments to interfere in future elections..."--Economist, November 04, 2017--

It is the job of Congress to "take down" our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house, which is a grave threat to our nation irrespective of the harebrained intelligence and campaign collusion scheme to influence the 2016 Presidential election outcome.

Hoping to blame the Russians and not our citizenry or dysfunctional nation for inflicting this grave harm is convenient and easier to rationalize, if not accurate.

November 03, 2017, added Gordon D. Gordon

Guess it's too early to put our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house under court ordered house arrest as a "flight and defection" risk?

Senator Angus King could not be more wrong when he asserts that Russia is taking advantage of our free press and our open society and driving divisions:

"...They have discovered a way to turn the strengths of our country and the West against ourselves," he said. "I call it geopolitical jiu-jitsu, where they're taking advantage of our free press and our open society and driving divisions, and there's no question that they did that in 2016 in a big way." --Examiner quoting King--

It is not our free press and open society that are the problems, they are the solution and our nation's greatest strengths! The problem is an untrustworthy and dysfunctional Congress held in contempt by a mostly uniformed† citizenry, which is therefore susceptible to a relatively simple and transparent foreign adversary's propaganda campaign!

† Typically, a credible and trusted Congress and Executive would team up to inform our citizenry (using the press and open society) and thereby immunize our nation against a propaganda campaign. Instead our Congress and Executive are on an unavoidable and destructive collision course, much to the delight of our citizenry and the propagandists! Both offering different justification for not altering course much to the delight of the propagandist!

In a Machiavelli twist both Congress and Executive see the press and open society as problems and seek to gain as they sail on a collision course, thereby confirming our citizenry's contempt! Both saying they are benefiting our citizenry and nation!

Few will shed tears for the professional politicians who've decided they can no longer stomach the stench of the shithouse they've created and inhabit. Nobody is going to pass out the Congressional Medal of Honor to any representative who decides to leave the shithouse, although they'll get credit for unequivocally taking steps limiting the spread of a virulent disease.

Today's professional politicians need special interests to invest yooge sums of money and those special interests have become increasingly intolerant of any deviation from their dogma driven agendas.

It's shocking that any general would defend our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house, much less a distinguished general. No retired general should serve our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house. The only advice an active general should provide beyond their best analysis and assessment on military matters is that it should immediately resign the presidency.

It's clearly a misfortune for our nation that its electoral vote tally delivered power to our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house, but its citizenry are not required to recognized or defend that power. In fact a strong case can be made that our citizenry has a duty to make sure that it's only nominally held until resignation or removal.

Sullivan's insights on how and why reactionism regresses a person's response to their current or future environments is worthy of a journal article or monograph. Why does regressing 350 million people into the past seem more rational to a reactionary (and ironically a terrorist wishing for a caliphate) than responding to their current and future environments?

"...On Monday [October 30, 2017], the retired four-star general and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly asserted that “the lack of an ability to compromise lead to the Civil War.” This was an incredibly stupid thing to say. Worse, it built on a long tradition of endorsing stupidity in hopes of making Americans stupid about their own history. Stupid enjoys an unfortunate place in the highest ranks of American government these days. And while one cannot immediately affect this fact, one can choose to not hear stupid things and quietly nod along..."

A coercive craziness compelling untenable choice between creed, colleague or collapse is enough to compel conversion to embrace of Christianity if "god" promises to change the channel...or we could just refuse to take part and end the craziness...

Whereas Donald J.
Trump stood beneath American flags on the steps of the United States
Capitol on January 20, 2017, placed his hand on a Bible, and spoke these words:

I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States; and will,to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God.

Whereas the Constitution of the United
States reads in part, “Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a
redress of grievances.”

Whereas Trump has responded to news coverage he dislikes by advocating that the freedom of the press be abridged by bureaucrats and legislators; and by calling the press a public enemy and a target of his “drain the swamp” agenda...

The madness, misery, and mayhem of our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house has shredded "unitary executive theory", but its Justice Department is still asserting it, at least with respect to its usage of "burn after read" apps!

All our citizens who voted for our "new" unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced alt-white-house owe our nation and the entire world an apology†!

While China works with trusted long-time friends and United States diplomats to contain North Korea our Congress must stop pretending to accommodate a pathological codependency with our "new" unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced alt-white-house and take immediate actions to contain and replace it.

† It's difficult to apologize when you're carrying torches and chanting nationalist and white supremacist slogans futility hoping to restore an illusion in history when you perceived yourself as oppressors and not the oppressed.

"...Instead Xi, a former chemist, staunchly reaffirmed his country’s commitment to investing in renewable energy and meeting its emissions goals. In fact, China is already blowing past some of its targets....The backbone of China’s rise in this realm is its 13th [ChinaDaily, Focus on 2016-2020] “Five-Year Plan,” (中国五年计划) which counts on scientific research and technology to be key drivers of economic growth. The result is a staggering $1.2 trillion devoted to R&D between 2016 and 2020. Of that, $373 billion is slated to go to renewable energy alone. Additionally, a 10-year “Made in China 2025” initiative supports progress in areas such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, robotics, biotechnology and electric vehicles..."--SA, October 2017--

"Kakistocracy is a term that was first used in the 17th century; derived from a Greek word, it means, literally, government by the worst and most unscrupulous people among us. More broadly, it can mean the most inept and cringeworthy kind of government...Moreover, Republican leaders, especially Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have blown up most of the remaining norms about how laws are developed, debated, and enacted...but the problem is deeper and worse when ineptitude joins with venality and recklessness, and when the stakes are far more than baseball pennants." --Atlantic--

...and the Republican Party donors are thinking that their corrupt congressional vassals and "new" unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced alt-white-house kakistocracy are grifters...

Comparing the unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house to imaginary scenes from an unsupervised adult day care is like comparing scenes from "Girl Interrupted" with "Daddy Day Care":

...and it's useful to remember that most, if not all the Republican Party, including Senator Corker went to great efforts "promoting, packaging, and protecting" our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house!

Now would be a good time to set up the long-delayed Russian 2016 Presidential Election Interference and White House Oversight Commission†, which will augment ongoing investigations and conduct daily oversight of our "new" alt-white-house pending the conclusion of all investigations.

The "Freedom Caucus" gets it precisely wrong. There is no need to distinguish between the hurricane and cowboy-cannibal-capitalist destruction costs when upgrading, rebuilding and restoring Puerto Rico's electrical grid, telecommunications, and infrastructure. Just fund all costs necessary to modernize, upgrade, rebuild, and restore Puerto Rico's electricity grid, telecommunications, and infrastructure.

Pretend that the "Militarist Wing" of the Republican Party has ordered the "Freedom Wing" of the Republican Party to pay for all costs for clean-up after the "Cowboy-Cannibal-Capitalist Wing" of the Republican Party has invaded, looted, and destroyed Puerto Rico!

Puerto Rico et al. should not suffer because the Republican Party is fast morphing into the "Party of Madness, Mayhem, and Misery"!

†† The $36B mentioned by the House Speaker is for all hurricane relief ($5B for Puerto Rico)! That amount is only a small part of what Puerto Rico requires, not to mention Texas and Florida! Total 2017 hurricane relief spending will be in the several hundreds of billions of dollars!

Our "new" alt-white-house is not even "exactly wrong" since that implies its rectum-ramblings are worth evaluating for truth, accuracy, and correctness. It's "exactly FUBAR"! We've been waiting 252 days, 2 hours, 21 minutes and 52 seconds for the "shit-scoopers" to clean up before the stench and pathogens further sicken our nation!

...instructive and interesting speeches from a 1965 Oxford Union forum...

"...In the case of the American Negro, from the moment you are born every stick and stone, every face, is white. Since you have not yet seen a mirror, you suppose you are, too. It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, 6, or 7 to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you..." —NYT quoting James Baldwin, The American Dream and the American Negro—

† American presidents and patriots do not opportunistically incite, amplify, encourage, or engage in nationalistic white supremacy race-baiting . Unfortunately, firing our "new" alt-white-house is not as easy as on reality television.

How ironic that nations are beginning to "route around America" as they look to Germany et al. for benchmark economic liberalism!

Pursuing state economic power at the expense of the individuals' welfare is difficult for democracies to reconcile as TE Gregory reminds us in his 1931 article:

"... As I understand it, economic nationalism regards it as the duty of the State to foster the economic power of the State rather than the economic welfare of the individuals composing the State. Of course it is necessary in democratic communities to reconcile the welfare of individuals with the ends of the State itself, and therefore it is sometimes argued that policies which further the economic power of the State are also policies which further the economic welfare of individuals. A large part of the ideology and dialectic of modern protectionism is concerned with trying to prove that the policies which further the power of States as such are also policies which further the well-being of individuals as individuals. But I think it is characteristic of the attitude of those who believe in economic nationalism that, when there is a conflict between the welfare of individuals on the one hand and the power of the State on the other, they say one ought, taking the world as it is, to choose deliberately, as a matter of rational calculation, the power of the State rather than the welfare of the individuals as the end to be pursued..."--Economic Nationalism, Royal Institute of International Affairs 1931-1939), Vol. 10, No. 3 (May, 1931), pp. 289-306, TE Gregory--

China's restrictions on capital outflows has much impeded Angbang Insurance Group et al. from financing overseas deals like 666 Fifth Avenue making it a highly unlikely funding source. One suspects our "new" alt-white-house is compulsorily disclosing a lot more than tax returns.

California's senior octogenarian senator's expression of hope for our "new" alt-white-house is very likely hoping that our nation does not endure years of fighting for a more diverse nation. To state it nicely, the facts belie the senior senator's fanciful expression of hope that a septuagenarian white racist president and supporters can or will change.

Instead of hoping our white racist president and supporters will change Congress must make it "perfectly clear" that they intend to corral our "new alt-white-house, pending its removal and replacement. Understandably many in Congress are declining to publicly state that our "new" alt-white-house is unfit lest they create an irremovable duty to remove such presidency and the political impossibility of doing so!

One wonders, which branch of our government is more "unfit"...the unstable, unwell, and unfit executive or a Congress unable to declare it so and respond appropriately?

"...To believe Mr Trump will change is to unlearn everything we know about him..." quoting

...we'd have to do more than "unlearn everything"...we'd be more delusional than Trump...or actively aiding and abetting him...don't forget to laugh...

† Refreshingly the talented junior senator from California is well below the average age of senators in the 115th Congress (61.8 years). Hopefully, California's senior senator and oldest member of the Senate at age 84 will soon say phooey to Washington:

immediately announce her retirement; and

collect her gold watch for a job well done over many years; and

return to the admiring residents of San Francisco, CA; and

focus on teaching and preparing young aspiring women for congressional careers as principled and effective politicians.

Young senators and representatives able to immediately declare any pussy grabbing delusional racist wannabe president "unfit" for the office of dog catcher, much less the Executive Office of the Presidency of the United States. Maybe some day the average age of a junior female senator will be well below that of the junior senator from California?

Our "new" alt-white-house's stability is highly unlikely to improve. Awaiting its implosion before planning for its replacement seems unwise. Neither a strongman nor fearful citizens of a kakistocracy are likely to welcome such planning, but that seems irrelevant.

...more rectum-ramblings from our "new" alt-white-house, which is developing into a kakistocracy trafficking in prevarication (WP, President Trump’s list of false and misleading claims tops 1,000), psychotic belief, and pretentiousness. It's useful to recall that an estimated 60 million of our citizenry voted for this hate filled, delusional and destructive kakistocracy!...

"...if you think they're going to give your country back without a fight you're sadly mistaken. Everyday, everyday it is going to be a fight and that is what I'm proudest about Donald Trump..."--Steve Bannon--

It would be helpful for our "new" alt-white-house to specifically articulate or describe what country it's fighting everyday to take back...and from whom...and for whom...and whether it's seeking to fight a second or new Civil War?

Our intrepid journalists must continue doing what they've done since the beginning of our nation. Unflinchingly document and publish the most current, complete, and exact record of our governments' behavior, whether reprehensible and repugnant (e.g. acting as cheerleader-in-chief for white supremacist and neo-Nazi rallies) or virtuous (e.g. support sequencing of the Human Genome).

More rectum-ramblings from our "new" alt-white-house, which is highly unlikely to help mitigate our nation's past or prepare for its future.

It seems useful to recall that the Republican Party has exploited, if not directly encouraged a southern white nationalist credo for many years and now finds it difficult to extract itself from their hurtful and harmful past.

Usually you distinguish between a pathological, compulsive, and sociopath liar, but when referring to our "new" alt-white-house you can use all three interchangeably. The congressional Republicans and others that refuse to call our "new" alt-white-house a liar may want to peruse this recently updated New York Times collection of lies since its swearing-in just 195 days ago and stop obsequiously deferring to a pathological, compulsive, and sociopath liar.

It's not clear how or why the Democrats (or the ubiquitous "they") could or would orchestrate the "witch hunt", "fake news", or "phony" Russia investigation in response to a lost election or to make them "feel better" or as an excuse or becasue they have "nothing else to talk about"? Here is some "real news", when you tired of the "fake news":

It's likely our "new" alt-white-house and nation are on an inexorable collision course. The nation's recovery will dependent on correct and independent records documenting the collision path. A national commission can use theses facts to investigate, reconstruct, analyze, and recommend ways to avoid future collisions and carnage.

It would take a general and SEAL Team Six to avoid the stunning conflict, chaos, collusion, cover-up, and colossal collision course† of our "new" alt-white-house! Our national carnage will likely be unavoidably considerable.

† Congress should create a national commission to untangle the course and recommend changes. Our Congress's paralysis when confronted with our ignominious "new" alt-white-house is part of the national carnage.

Our "new" alt-white-house never had a "fine-tuned machine". We can expect many more temper tantrums as the presidential-play-pen fills with sh!t and all but Vice President Pence et al. flee the scads of sh!t.

"...one of the great things about this president is you always know where you stand..." -Vice President Pence July 27, 2017 interview with Fox News--

"The Wall"

Americans are beginning to understand where they stand and the odor is overwhelmingly unpleasant and noxious.

It's unclear why the leaders of our nation have been exempt from mental health evaluation by responsible professionals? Coupled with comprehensive healthcare, which includes parity for mental health our leaders can seek treatment, become better leaders, and set an example for our nation in the 21st century.

What better way to educate and tell our citizenry about all aspects of beneficial mental health than real-time case study of our leaders? And what better way of changing our nation's punitive mental health model to a preventative one?

After hearing the disturbing drivel from our unstable, unwell, and unfit "new" alt-white-house to the Boy Scouts gathered for their annual jamboree who could blame the Girl Scouts for seeking an injunction?

3. Impeachment is not a proper or exclusive remedy for a fraudulent election. It's possible for a political impeachment and conviction to precede a legal ruling, which annuls our Presidential Election of 2016.

Originally Published July 24, 2017; Last Updated November 16, 2017; Last Republished November 13, 2017: